Wow, was für ein Traumpaar: Brakay ist das neue Brangelina! Brad Downey und Akay haben zusammen im italienischen Grottagli für das Fame Festival zahlreiche neue Arbeiten realisiert. “These pieces and actions reflect pretty faithfully the entire festival atmosphere and attitude. A bunch of kids playing freely with the context, for fun, improvising totally unnecessary things that will eventually look good or even have a meaning or a message. The truth is that it just feels great to do what we really like to do, especially because we were never asked to do it and it wasnt supposed to be done at all. So you do your shit, somebody will point it out as illegal, some other will call it art, but after all, legality has never been fun and art is just so BORING when it’s so much “art” that it’s better to let others do the talking we dont really give a fuck.”

Die neuen Arbeiten von NeSpoon: Neue Malereien im Rahmen des italienischen Fame-Festival und das neue “Scrabble”-Project. “The Scrabble project reflects the information mosaic we use to create our image of reality. It is meant to encourage viewers to reflect on their knowledge about the world, usually constructed on the basis of unified information supplied by large mediaconcerns through mainstream media.It is also an invitation to independent explorations and verification of information on the most important aspects of our reality, such as GMOs, global health policies, the nature and causes of financial crises, corporate social responsibility, global warming, conspiracy theories, etc.” Via: Mail

Fantastische Arbeit von NUG für das italienische FAME Festival, die wieder einmal beweist: Eigentlich provozieren heute nur noch Tags, alles andere wird als willkommene Dekoration wahrgenommen: “Some people, the same people that usually smile at us ’cause they appreciate the festival, would meet us in the street and look somewhere else, embrassed to say hi. some other would come and say what we’ve done is not goodlooking and impossible to understand. the bravest ones would pull it out fully and say: hey, this is just horrible, it was a mistake, you know it right? now you have to buff it. the funny thing is that just 3 or 4 of these guys were trained vandals, the rest of them was a bunch of good guys and girls. what i love in what Nug does, is that the most obscure morbid shit can get to be social and funny. this is the way i like to see it all: we can, potentially, fuck everything up in one minute only. and it will be fun!” Wem das gefällt. dem könnte auch das gefallen: “Its So Fresh I Cant Take It“, “territorial pissing“, “Best things in life for free“. Via

Blu hat für das italienische Fame Festivalmal wieder eine beeindruckende, monumentale und politische Wandarbeit angefertigt: “One of the main cultivations here in Grottaglie is Olives, there are thousands beautiful threes in the fields and some of them are more then a hundred years old. One of the main shapes of our ceramic tradition is the ivory dish, the artisans of the ceramic district handcut little sponges to sop em up in ceramic ink and paint the blu stars along the borders while the ivory glace is still fresh on the terracotta. Another thing that made our little town famous in these last years is our special wastes dump. Outhern italy is in real deep shit with the trash business. Grottaglie did not need the dump at all and people in town were not given any warn before it was already being built. Guess how come?!? now we have trash coming from very far away and the dump seems to get bigger and bigger, there already are three huge lots full of trash and trucks get here daily from northern europe to deliver more shit. This piece comes in the very right moment, considering that there are workers diggind another huge hole in the ground near the dump. there are reasons to believe that they are going to create a fourth lot and again, our formidable town concillors are not telling anything to their own people. how morbid is this?” Via/Via